Sections 5.2 and 5.3

Ingest

Three ways in: the Companies House API, an operator typing a listing in, or a CSV. The two listing adapters are present, wired and off.

Run search

Adapters in this run

Manage sources

companies_house

Will run

official_api · 184 / 600 in window

manual

Will run

manual_entry · 19 records held

csv_import

Will run

manual_entry · last file 6 rows

businessesforsale

Skipped

public_web · authorisation record unsigned

daltonsbusiness

Skipped

public_web · authorisation record unsigned

Result

3 of 5

Skips are reported, not hidden

companies_house

Companies House lookup

Company name or number SIC code Registered office postcode Accounts filed since

Budgeted at 1 request. 416 remaining in this window.

The client refuses the call rather than exceeding 600 requests per rolling 5 minutes. On a 429 it reads Retry-After and backs off exponentially. Sandbox and live are separated by COMPANIES_HOUSE_ENV.

manual

Manual listing entry

Trading name Asking price (GBP) Sector Location Revenue, latest year EBITDA as advertised

Source URL

Everything typed here is tagged Seller provided — unverified or Broker provided — unverified at save. There is no path to enter a figure as verified.

csv_import

CSV import

shortlist-aug-2026.csv · 6 rows · mapped Validated

CSV column	Maps to	Provenance applied	Row check
company_name	opportunity.trading_name	Broker	6 / 6
asking_price	opportunity.asking_price	Broker	6 / 6
turnover	financials.revenue[latest]	Broker	5 / 6 — one blank
ebitda	financials.reported_ebitda[latest]	Broker	4 / 6 — two blank
company_number	entity.company_number	Verified on match	6 / 6
listing_url	source.url	Broker	6 / 6

Blanks stay blank. The importer does not interpolate, average, or carry a value forward from another row. Rows with missing EBITDA land as Verification required.

Run log — search "London FM and services", 21 Aug 2026

Time	Adapter	Event	Detail
09:41:02	pipeline	Start	Mandate v4 loaded. 5 adapters registered.
09:41:02	businessesforsale	Refused	Authorisation record unsigned. Adapter not instantiated.
09:41:02	daltonsbusiness	Refused	Authorisation record unsigned. Adapter not instantiated.
09:41:03	companies_house	Fetch	Advanced search, SIC 81210, 4 pages. 118 entities.
09:43:18	companies_house	Cache hit	84 of 118 accounts documents served from cache on ETag.
09:44:51	companies_house	Throttle	Token bucket paused 6.2 s at 592 / 600. No 429 received.
09:46:07	csv_import	Import	6 rows, 2 routed to verification on missing EBITDA.
09:46:09	manual	Load	19 operator records loaded.
09:46:12	distress	Withheld	1 opportunity flagged distressed. Hidden by mandate.
09:46:14	pipeline	Done	143 sourced, 7 passed screen, 2 shortlisted, 1 withheld.

Every refusal is a log line the operator sees. A source that cannot run never silently drops out of the funnel count.

AcquiScope produces analysis and modelling, not regulated investment advice. Nothing on this screen was fetched. The run log is an illustration of the shape the real log takes.